Weekend Open Forum: What's the oldest part in your PC?

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Although most of us upgrade our systems regularly, it's generally uncommon to replace every single component -- even for a fresh build. Instead, parts less crucial to daily performance such as optical drives, bulk storage, cases or even power supplies...

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Pretty much a tie between the 3ghz p4 prescott and geforce 6200OC video card, and maybe the 512MB sticks of ddr400 ram. why fix what aint broke?
the hardware has been through a few psu's and hard drives, and doesnt seem to have any signs of giving up.

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god my system must be getting old... thats one of the newest component of my PC. Trusty 9550 Quad core, overclocked to a 2.5, does the job with most games. Runs Planetside 2 for me along with a GTS 250.

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I just upgraded my PC again and the only parts left remaining from my '05 build are the Antec Neo 500w PSU and my Viewsonic VX2025 monitor which is only a secondary to my Dell U2711. Despite having a GTX680, this PSU is more than enough and no reason to swap it out.

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Well, the oldest part that I have is the ATI Radeon 7200 DDR, I don't remember who's the manufacturer.
Second is, the Geforce 4 MX 4000, again, don't remember the manufacturer.
Third is the frickin, friggin slow as hell Pentium 4 540 @ 3.0 GHz that comes with Dell OptiPlex GX280, which I'm still using. Boy, that thing drives me crazy.

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Sound Blaster Audigy II that's been in every system I have since probably 2002. Have yet to find an on-board sound chip that does 5.1 correctly. Even sadder, I'm using the last Daniel K drivers since Creative couldn't be bothered to debug their software.

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god my system must be getting old... thats one of the newest component of my PC. Trusty 9550 Quad core, overclocked to a 2.5, does the job with most games. Runs Planetside 2 for me along with a GTS 250.

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Would have to be two cast iron/rubber harddisk-trays from around 2002. They look like #&¤%, but keep my Velociraptor 600Gb and Caviar Black 1Tb at nearly silent operation.

I upgrade hardware one bit at a time, where an upgrade is needed to be able to play AAA-games with all the eyecandy on and loads of A.A. and A.F. So my hardware rarely gets old. As I donate my "old" hardware to family and friends, people tend to love my passion for new hardware